Romney gives Obama an 'F'

As Mitt Romney prepares to officially roll out his presidential campaign later this week, he’s giving President Barack Obama an ‘F’ for the last two years.

“It’s failed,” the former Massachusetts governor said of the Obama presidency in an interview taped over the weekend at his New Hampshire home that aired Tuesday morning on NBC’s “Today.”

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“He’s been one of the most ineffective presidents at the job at hand that I’ve ever seen,” Romney said. “The number one issue he faced walking in the door was an economy in fast decline. He didn’t cause it, but he made things worse.”

And he’s confident that he will win. “I do give myself better than 50/50 odds, but it's up to the American people. I’ll tell them what I believe and if that works, great.”

Responding to critics who question his dismissal of President Barack Obama’s health care law after he signed a universal health care bill into law in Massachusetts, Romney said the difference is in what the bills do.

“If I become president, I will repeal Obamacare,” he said, repeating a promise he’s made central to his campaign. “My bill was 70 pages. His bill is 2,700 pages. In those extra 2,630 pages, he’s doing a lot of stuff that is just devastating to the health care system in this country. He’s wrong.”

Romney and his wife Ann also pushed back against the perception that he’s too buttoned-up. He uses an iPad to listen to country music and the Beatles, he said, and has read the “Twilight” books.

Romney also finds the often irreverent “South Park” funny, he said.

He said he laughed when he first learned that the creators of “South Park” had launched a Broadway musical called “Book of Mormon,” that has since been nominated for multiple Tony awards.

Though he hasn’t seen it yet, “I probably will at some point,” he said. “You know your faith has made it big time when people poke fun at you on Broadway.”